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🗓️ 10 June 2025
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0:44.7 | sum of its parts. |
0:46.5 | Today, we are tackling culture wars, and we're focusing on how they are, you know, it's |
0:54.0 | sort of like, it's sort of like race. |
0:55.6 | It's like total bullshit, effectively non-existent, but at the same time, deeply, deeply |
1:02.7 | true and important and has major effects on society. |
1:07.4 | I feel like culture wars are sort of similar in general. And so we are going to |
1:13.1 | point out that they're bullshit and demonstrate and educate on how to pivot away from them |
1:19.6 | to progressive ideas that really matter in a way that is not pure distraction and nonsense |
1:27.3 | for the sake of, you know, |
1:29.2 | distracting people away from being robbed blind by the oligarchs. |
1:33.5 | Am I missing anything or is that pretty much everyone's interpretation of what we're doing today? |
1:38.4 | I thought that was a good summary. |
1:39.9 | Oh, good. |
1:40.7 | I ad-libbed that because I forgot to write an intro this time. |
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